Principals’ Budget Management Practices: A Predictor of Public Junior Secondary School Performance in Kwara State, Nigeria
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2025-04-30
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Attadrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiyah,
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Effective and efficient school budgets determine the extent of attaining school objectives.
This study investigated principals' budget management practices: a predictor of public junior secondary
school performance in Kwara State, Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to examine the level of
principals' budget management practices in Kwara State, find out the level of public junior secondary
school performance in Kwara State, Nigeria, establish the relationship between principals' budget
planning and public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State; investigate the relationship
between principals' budget controlling and public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State
and examine the relationship between principals' budget monitoring and public junior secondary school
performance in Kwara State. The study adopted a descriptive survey of correlational type. One hundred
and ninety respondents were used for the study. Principals' Budget Management Practices and Public
Junior Secondary School Performance Questionnaire (PBMPPJSSPQ) were used for data collection.
Two research questions were raised and answered to guide the study's conduct using descriptive statistics
of frequency and percentages. Four research hypotheses were formulated and tested using inferential
Pearson product-moment correlation statistics at a 0.05 significance level. Findings showed that
principals' budget management practices in budget planning, budgeting monitoring, and controlling
would tremendously enhance and improve public junior secondary school performance in school
effectiveness, discipline, sports and recreation and students' academic achievement. It was
recommended that the Kwara State government involve school principals and teachers in the budget
management practices, planning, and implementation. This will enable the school staff and heads to
understand the educational budget allocation and ensure funds are spent judiciously
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Shittu, A. A., Adaramaja, M. S., Olaifa, A. S., Faruk, Y. A, & Alao, M. I.